beneficiarymeans a natural person who participates in EGF co-funded measures;
displaced workermeans a worker, regardless of the type or duration of his or her employment relationship, whose employment contract or relationship is ended prematurely by redundancy, or whose employment contract or relationship is not renewed, for economic reasons;
enterprise undergoing restructuringmeans an enterprise undergoing a process that involves ‘collective redundancies’, as defined in Article 1(1), point (a), of Directive 98/59/EC.
implementation periodmeans the period beginning on the dates referred to in point (j) of Article 8(7) and ending 24 months after the date of entry into force of the decision on the financial contribution pursuant to Article 15(2);
irregularitymeans a breach of applicable law, resulting from an act or omission by an economic operator involved in the implementation of the EGF, which has, or would have, the effect of prejudicing the budget of the Union by charging unjustified expenditures to that budget;
self-employed personmeans a natural person who employs fewer than 10 workers;
worker affected by imminent job displacementmeans a worker in an enterprise undergoing restructuring whose employment contract or relationship, regardless of its type or duration, is expected to be ended by redundancy following a written communication from the employer to the workers’ representatives informing them, during the course of consultations, of, inter alia, the number and categories of workers to be made redundant in accordance with Article 2(3), point (b), of Directive 98/59/EC;